Focus and Scope

Scope and Topics

The journal welcomes high-quality original research articles, critical reviews, and conceptual papers that offer significant contributions to the following thematic areas:

• Sustainable Aquaculture & Nutrition: Innovative fish and shellfish breeding techniques, seaweed cultivation, aquatic animal health and disease management, bio-floc technology, and sustainable feed development.

• Marine Ecology & Biodiversity: Population dynamics of marine organisms, coral reef conservation, mangrove and seagrass ecology, marine biotechnology, and the impacts of ocean acidification on aquatic life.

• Fisheries Management & Technology: Advanced capture fisheries technologies, selective fishing gear design, stock assessment models, small-scale fisheries dynamics, and computational tracking in maritime security.

• Aquatic Toxicology & Environmental Health: Microplastic pollution monitoring, heavy metal bioaccumulation studies, aquatic habitat remediation, and the assessment of anthropogenic stress on freshwater and marine ecosystems.

• Blue Economy & Marine Policy: Maritime socio-economics, coastal zone management, sustainable seafood supply chain architectures, carbon sequestration in aquatic systems (blue carbon), and international ocean governance metrics.